Donald MacCrimmon MacKay

Background

MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon was born on August 9, 1922 in Lybster, Scotland. Son of Henry and Janet Catherine (McHardy) MacKay.

Education

MacKay was educated at Wick High School and Street Andrews University, and gained a Doctor of Philosophy at King"s College London. In the late 1940s MacKay was among the first members of the Ratio Club.

Career

Radar researcher Admiralty, 1943—1946. Assistant lecturer, physics King's College, London, 1946—1948, lecturer, physics, 1948—1959, reader, physics, 1959—1960. Professor, communication, neuroscience University Keele, Staffordshire, England, 1960—1982, emeritus professor, since 1982.

Associate Neurosci. Research Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967—1976.

Achievements

• Donald MacCrimmon MacKay has been listed as a notable neuroscientist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Views

Quotations: In our age, when people look for explanations, the tendency more and more is to conceive of any and every situation that we are trying to understand by analogy with a machine.

Membership

Fellow: Institute Physics, King's College London. Member: Royal Netherlands Academy (foreign member), Electroencephalogram Society, Experimental Psychology Society, Physiological Society.

Interests

• Photography.

Connections

Married Valerie Wood, July 16, 1955. Children: Robert Sinclair, Eleanor Catherine, Janet Elizabeth, Margaret Anne Hartley, David John Cameron.

Father:

Henry MacKay

Mother:

Janet Catherine (McHardy) MacKay

Spouse:

Valerie Wood

child:

Janet Elizabeth MacKay

child:

Eleanor Catherine MacKay

child:

Robert Sinclair MacKay

child:

David John Cameron MacKay

child:

Margaret Anne Hartley MacKay